OOTS #345 - The Discussion Thread

[The Giant]

New comic is up.

[Bookman]

AHAHAHAHAHA! "Can you wait 8 hours"! It's BRILLIANT! BRILLIANT I say! ;D! Now the question is..........how does sonic damage trees? I never got sonic damage......wouldn't not having ears save you? And they're trees.............right?

[chesch]

SONIC!!!!!

oh wait, I only shouted the word?!?


QQ - doesn't D&D protection spells just give a higher resist roll as opposed to total protection?


(First page)

[Felinoid]

LMAO. As if V's endless voicings don't count as a sonic attack by themselves. :P

[oowatie]

Great comic, Mr. Giant. Glad to see them coming more frequently, hehe.

I never prepared any Sonic spells, either.

[Crusher]

Brilliant as always!

Out of curiosity, just how many trees does he have up and around? That could potentially be an awful lot of energy protecting. Perhaps he prepared scrolls in advance.

[NEO|Phyte]

QQ - doesn't D&D protection spells just give a higher resist roll as opposed to total protection?

Depends on the spell being used.

[Wanderlust]

Sweet.

[Aerysil1]

Hmm... requesting a pause for 8 hours, I'll have to remember that one.

*cough* - first p- ah forget it.

[Hurlbut]

SONIC! Heh ;D

[Laser_Ghost]

Who is Jack Vance and why are his writings so troublesome?

Awesome comic.

[Miraqariftsky]

Hmm, and I suppose V didn't prepare any acidic spells either... acid? How about someone's acidic sarcasm? Juuuuussst incredible pacing, Giant!

[SumGuy]

awesome comic

as for sonic damage, it would be the vibrations that would damage you.

[Bookman]

awesome comic

as for sonic damage, it would be the vibrations that would damage you.

AHhhhhhhhhh but.....wouldn't the vibrations expand in a circular patttern further and further out there?

Wait........I'm thinking of physics

A wizard did it ;) My Bad

[TheWanderingLlama]

Awesomeosity.

[Miraqariftsky]

Lo, a golden grain of time
stops its fall
Unto the brazen sea of
ancient ages

First page!
(If this is improper, please forgive me. Just a newb who got lucky...)

[Dawnstrider_Moogle]

Who is Jack Vance and why are his writings so troublesome?

I'm guessing the Giant anticipated this question, and answered it in the title.

That said: Ahahaha. Too bad he barred Conjuration, or maybe he would have been able to summon the Hedgehog :P

[NEO|Phyte]

Who is Jack Vance and why are his writings so troublesome?

Judging by the strip's title, I'm going to assume that Jack Vance wrote the magic system used in 3.x D&D.

:edit: damn ninjas

[Aerysil1]

Ah so that's where the word Vancian came from...

[Muscadine]

SONIC!

I have no idea who that guy is.

[SPoD]

Judging by the strip's title, I'm going to assume that Jack Vance wrote the magic system used in 3.x D&D.

:edit: damn ninjas

Close.

Jack Vance is a fantasy and science fiction author who wrote a series of fantasy novels (called "The Dying Earth") that had wizards who memorized their spells daily and then forgot them when they were cast. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson consciously adapted that system when they invented D&D in the late 1970's.

And yeah, that's why they call it, "Vancean".

EDIT: Wikipedia is your friend! Jack Vance and the Dying Earth series.

[TheDRaconicLord]

Buwahahaha, poor V. I can't believe he actually was caught with his pants down.

"...a brief pause in the battle? Say, about 8 hours or so?"

Brillaint ;D ;D


But I do wonder how sonic can affect the trees...they don't have ears...unless the sonic spell makes them crack in 2 ;D


(SECOND PAGE! WOOOT WOOT)

[Taelas]

Who is Jack Vance and why are his writings so troublesome?

Awesome comic.

The magic system in D&D (all incarnations, by the way) was first invented by Jack Vance (which is why it's called the "Vancian" magic system).

[Calamity]

Haha, give me 8 hours, V is too funny

[kabbor]

Now I think we can add another antiposition to the Evil Opposites list:

He's Stupid. "Advancing the cause of environmental preservation" indeed. And by leading trees into a battle, where they will all end up toasted one way or another.

[yuccadude]

"A brief pause, about 8 hours or so" ;D great attempt there, V

[Tobimaro]

V: "Made you duck!" ;D

A brief pause in the battle, say eight hours or so. Priceless.

And an Evil (but enviromentally-friendly) druid. Who would have thought?

Wow. The thread is only a half hour old, and I have to settle for page 2. But anyways, insert obligatory "woot", as this matches my best effort yet. :P

[Kittenwolf]

Hehe, now we just hope that V memorised Dispel Magic this morning ;D

[Pheldagriff]

omg 8-hour break is t3h funny bandwagon +1

great comic

(hopefully) second page

[Heads_or_Tails]

Ah, but now the question to be answered is will Leeky agree to pause the battle for eight hours, in order to protect the trees from sonic damage on the off-chance that another person just happens to have a sonic spell memorised? More likely though he would just continue the rampage.

Something that I like seeing is the similarities showing between Leeky and Vaarsuvius. Even as Leeky isn't supposed to be Vaarsuvius-esque as much as Anti-Durkon there have been some wonderful paralels. (mad. MAD!)